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It's just misleading nonsense to call this a supercomputer, with or without the quotes around it. I dug out this article from 2007 about building a 26 gigaflop
by EwanToo 14y ago
It's just misleading nonsense to call this a supercomputer, with or without the quotes around it.
I dug out this article from 2007 about building a 26 gigaflops "supercomputer" called the Microwulf Supercomputer which cost under $2500 [1].
And according to Intel [2], the Intel i5-650 processor can do 25.6 GFLOPs.
This is just the worst kind of kickstarter marketing.
1 - http://www.geekologie.com/2007/09/supercomputer-does-26-gigaflop.php http://www.geekologie.com/2007/09/supercomputer-does-26-giga...
2 - http://download.intel.com/support/processors/corei5/sb/core_i5-600_d.pdf http://download.intel.com/support/processors/corei5/sb/core_...
- bryanlarsen 14y agoThere are GPUs that can do a teraflop, so yes, 26 gigaflops is terribly unimpressive. There are some areas that can't be easily handled by a GPU, but those are mainly bandwidth-limited, which wouldn't be improved by this architecture. The defining feature of this proposal is their 70 gigaflops/watt number, which is impressive. But that doesn't make it a suitable target for hobbyists. Hobbyists who want to play with supercomputing for cheap should just use their existing video card.
- astrodust 14y agoEven a relatively commodity card costing $100 can do 1 teraflop with the higher-end cards already pushing beyond 8 teraflops. The days of a gigaflop being an impressive unit of measurement are surely over.